Re: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit
- From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:11:18 +1100
On 2007-Feb-27 20:11:19 +1100, Petrus <petrus4@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was looking for alternate compilers to GCC a couple of days ago, and
ended up finding the Amsterdam Compiler Kit.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/tack/)
I recall this from when I was playing with minix.
I adamantly hope that this is something that FreeBSD could eventually use.
Whilst there is some activity on it, the CVS repository contains a
worryingly large number of files that apparently haven't been touched
in more than a decade (some haven't been touched in 25 years). Based
on a quick rummage around the repository, it doesn't appear to support
any current-generation CPUs. The intersection between FreeBSD and
TACK appears to consist of solely of the 80486. (There is also an arm
tree but I don't know enough about the arm architecture to know if a
15 year old compiler is going to work with current chips).
Possibly FreeBSD could eventually use the compiler but it would need a
massive amount of work before it could even support the architectures
that FreeBSD runs on.
That said, the first step would be for someone to create a port of
the compiler. Some of the backends may be of interest to people
doing legacy or embedded work.
--
Peter Jeremy
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